 Topic: Polishing compound
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PeterWillis
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Anyone know the "recipe" for the grease/kerosene polishing compound?
The guy I apprenticed with mentioned it once or twice about cleaning
old brass mouthpieces, but never whipped up a batch. Then when I was at
Brannen Bros Flutes' shop last year, they were using it to polish keys
- didn't think to ask how to make it. It pops into my mind from time to
time when I look at the buffing wheel and a small key or other piece.
What kind of grease?
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bobbaier
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Don't know what
they're using at Brannen, but we used to pound Burns red rouge into a
powder with a hammer (the rouge was wrapped in a cloth) and add valve
oil to make a paste. Gives a great final finish, but kind of messy.
bob
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PeterWillis
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Thanks. Yeah, messy
but effective seems to be to idea - Brannen uses a small bristle brush
(like from a Dremel kit) in a motor to polish their keys in order to
keep all the lines sharp - buffs will round things out and make the
edges duller and sloppier looking they say.
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JButky
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It's very simple..Just add the kero to some red rouge and let it sit.
It will slowly dissolve into a paste that you can use for polishing.
The amount is by feel just like adding alcohol to shellac flakes to get
the right consistency. When it starts to dry, just refresh it a bit
with kero and/or rouge. If you smash the rouge up a bit with a hammer
it speeds up the process.
Joe B
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stewartfischer
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When I get finished working on flutes I have a chamois wheel I put in
my bench motor, and while its turning I spray Hagerty's Silversmith
Spray on it and go over the instrument to polish and remove
fingerprints. This does a nice job and is not messy at all.
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JButky
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I reserve polishing
for complete restorations only when someone wants the body tube
completely free of scratches as you get from the maker. Buffing of any
kind is reserved for high polish only so I don't use it for regular PC
work.
A standard body clean is the foil/baking soda
tarnishremoval cleaning procedure followed by a rinse and application
of tarnish shield with a hand rag finish. Any motorized equipment
should be reserved for localized scratch removals only since you will
remove a lot more metal in the process when its not necessary.
The
rouge paste idea is a similar situation. Dissolved it is less agressive
and requires less buffing for a nice finish. It is great, especially
for keywork followed by a good cleaning. I reserve the rouge paste for
worst cases since it is not necessary in many cases unless you have
"worked" the metal.
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